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Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations
by Karine Bell
Welcome to Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations, an exploratory podcast with the co-dreamers and friends of the Rooted Global Village, in conversation with change-makers, scholar-activists and teachers, dedicated to culture change work and seeding future(s). We evoke in these conversations the powerful metaphor of composting. Composting is a process of transformation, wherein organic materials, once alive, break down and decay, eventually becoming rich, nourishing soil. We seek to identify and grapple with aspects and elements of culture, and in our personal lives, that no longer serve us and the world(s) we wish to create, and begin the slow work of composting them. We traverse paradigm-shifting themes, exploring the transformational power of body-centered praxis, the vibrancy of creative arts, the joy of spontaneity and play, the depth of poetry, and the profound interconnections of earth-spirit and more-than-human encounters. This podcast reflects the work of personal and co
Episodes
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We Are EarthSeeds: Collaborative Creation & the New World Nursery with Mist Alderkin
In this conversation, Karine Bell is joined by Mist Saoirse Alderkin to explore the New World Nursery, a space within the Rooted Village dedicated to collective dreaming, creativity, and responsibility to the worlds we are shaping together. They talk about heartache and the longing for…
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What We've Sacrificed to Stay Safe and the Courage to Peer Beneath the Waterline
Karine shares a story from childhood about visiting her grandmother's house where she encountered the heavy, unspoken tensions that would shape a lifelong commitment to shadow work. This reflection weaves personal memory with a deeper exploration of the cost of avoiding the shadow—those...
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In Care We Distrust (aka Experiments in Village-Making)
In Care We Distrust is an introduction and reflection from inside the Rooted Village, where we're not just talking about care and care ecologies—we're getting into the messy, layered work of studying, designing and practicing it/them. Underneath so much of the crisis we're living…
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On SE+AM: Relational Courage and Creative Aliveness w/Weena Pauly-Tarr
In this episode, we dive into a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with the brilliant Weena Pauly-Tarr, creator of SE+AM—a body-centered practice that blends Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement. In a time of heightened polarization and disconnection, SE+AM offers a profound way to...
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Where Do I Belong: An Exploring Identity and Belonging for Bi/cultural bodies [THIS TIME FOR EUROPE]
Welcome to a fresh session of Tending The Roots. In this episode Karine Bell speaks with Dr Leticia Neito about an upcoming program hosted by The Rooted Global Village called Where Do I Belong: An Exploration of Identity and Belonging for Bi/multicultural bodies - this time, for Europe. It's a...
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Wanna Play? Play as Liberatory Practice with Heidi and Karine
About Heidi J Cardoza: From a young age Heidi has been empathic and expressive, with a love of nature and a desire to understand reality by honoring multiple perspectives. She studied physics, dance and performance art in college and produced several multimedia shows asking questions and…
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Part 4: Cycles of Fire: Imagination and our Maps
On our own, the desire born from the challenges we've faced can be a powerfully transformative force in our lives. Our personal embrace of the Soulful Chainbreaker becomes a cultural force when we gather together, commune, share stories, and support each other to commit to and sustain the…
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Part 3: The Spirit and Science of Change Work
Many experiences of trauma/oppression reveal where we've failed to belong authentically. The ways in which, as we navigate our social worlds, we come up against blocks and barriers to birthright dignity, authenticity, acceptance and belonging. That is, where we disappoint and fail to conform to…
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Part 2: Unlocked: When We Access a Desire Greater than Fear
The Chainbreaker as archetype invites critical questioning and reclaiming. We are invited to consider disappointing our families of origin, and the cultural influences at large by rejecting narratives and dictates that reproduce harms.It's risky, even, for those most marginalized in these...
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Part I: Who is the Soulful Chainbreaker?
Transmuting Intergenerational Trauma Through The Creative Principles of Fire This is a story about what it means to be the one who steps out of line. The one willing to be the weak link in the chain. The one willing to disrupt and disobey; to embrace disruption as a portal and disappoint some of...
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Dancing Beyond : Music, identity, and community with Cliff Berrien
Cliff Berrien has 40-years of experience as a student and teacher of Afro-Diasporic drumming and music traditions. He has combined his music studies, degree in psychology and years of experience as a professional DJ to develop practices that promote collective joy, cultural dexterity and global...
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A Short Reflection on Trust
I've learned over a lifetime of experience with people who either steered me away from, or closer to, the intelligence and wisdom my body held, that the teachers I trusted most were those that taught me to trust myself. There is a profound relationship between trust, bodily intelligence, and...
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On Grief, Desire, & Liberation — With Oceana Sawyer
In this episode we discuss grief as a metabolizer of experience and its role in our lives and the world to come. An End of Life (EOL) Doula, Oceana specializes in the liminal spaces of active dying and grief. She is currently researching the intersection of embodied grief and somatic abolitionism...
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A grief too big to hold alone
This podcast was recorded in early September, 2023, in the midst of a wave of grief that felt too big for my body; too big to hold alone. In Rooted, we are dedicated to shifting away from cultural forms that perpetuate separation and isolation. Sometimes my heart breaks so deeply at the news of…
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Back to Bodily Knowing with Weena Pauly-Tarr
I'm excited to have Weena on the podcast today. She happens to be a dear friend of mine and also one of our rooted team members. In rooted, Weena is probably the person who more than anyone else, brings us back to the body, to the impulse of bodily knowing, and how we can engage with the themes...
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Rooted's Mission Story
Welcome to the Rooted global village. This podcast episode is an introduction of sorts, to what The Rooted Global Village exists because of, and for. Rooted is an organism made up of the many souls who are a part of it. And like any organism, it has a birth story. And like other birth stories…
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Akilah Richards on Unschooling from 'Schoolishness'
Akilah is a mother, partner, and liberation worker who helps people unlearn the barriers to being our real selves together, in our homes and all the other ways we connect, work, and serve. In July of 2016, Richards published the first episode of Fare of the Free Child podcast, now known among the...
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Kai Cheng Thom — On Leadership and Dissent: Is Difference Really Okay?
Kai Cheng Thom is an author, community worker, somatic healer, lasagna lover, and wicked witch based in Toronto. She has spoken and published widely on the topics of trauma, transformative justice, and mental health. A former clinical social worker, Kai Cheng has also spent over a decade working…
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Yvette Murrell — On Pause, Possibility, & Play: An Invitation to Wade Inside Wonder
Yvette Murrell is a coach, healer, consultant, co-founder, and Connector of the former Playback Milwaukee Theatre Company, has multifaceted, cross-sector national career accomplishments in expressive arts, business, and education. A powerfully-gifted facilitator and shaman with over 30 years of...
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The Cosmic Shift: On our relationship w/planets & stars
I grew up looking into the night sky and the heavens above me. Without concepts that defined the movement of planets and stars, or the mathematics to describe them, I would orient my head and neck upwards, captivated by the beauty of this cosmic mystery stretched out above my head. So expansive...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations, an exploratory podcast with the co-dreamers and friends of the Rooted Global Village, in conversation with change-makers, scholar-activists and teachers, dedicated to culture change work and seeding future(s). We evoke in these conversations the powerful metaphor of composting. Composting is a process of transformation, wherein organic materials, once alive, break down and decay, eventually becoming rich, nourishing soil. We seek to identify and grapple with aspects and elements of culture, and in our personal lives, that no longer serve us and the world(s) we wish to create, and begin the slow work of composting them. We traverse paradigm-shifting themes, exploring the transformational power of body-centered praxis, the vibrancy of creative arts, the joy of spontaneity and play, the depth of poetry, and the profound interconnections of earth-spirit and more-than-human encounters. This podcast reflects the work of personal and co
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Karine Bell
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